On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 22:03, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:48 -0500 > > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm also very reluctant to learn Python because I'm very adamant > > > in how I use whitespace. Though I will need to pick it up sooner later. > > > As well as Ruby and probably PHP as well. You can never know too many > > > languages after all. :) > > > > That was one of two points that really stuck in my craw about Python. But > > ya know what? 2+ years later and now I go back to Perl code or poke through C > > code and I just find it nasty to paw through. And writing either of those, > > oy, don't even get me started. It's definitely something to get used to and > > the more used to doing things with block delimiters the more friction there is > > to doing it any other way. But I'd not go back and I wish other languages > > would take the same path. > > I agree 100%, although it was my encounter with Miranda c1986 that > first prompted the "I'll indent how I like" reaction. > > But you are right, having to indent properly produces much > cleaner-looking and easier to maintain code. > > And I really appreciate the latter after having spent several hours on > afternoon about 15 years ago trying to find a bug in a C program (not > written by me), and missing it because poor and inconsistent > indentation by the original author made me misread the code. > > After I found the bug the next task I set myself,, before doing > anything else, was to indent his code properly. All went much better > after that. > > I also think that enforced indentation is a very good thing in a > language used to teach programming - one of the things that makes > python so good for that, in fact.
But as you just demonstrated, regularized indenting is crucial to any code bigger than, oh, say, a 25-liner. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "What other evidence do you have that they are terrorists, other than that they trained in these camps?" 17-Sep-2002 Katie Couric to an FBI agent regarding the 5 men arrested near Buffalo NY -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
